Tong tong tong
/ there goes the church bell
/ on white must we dress
/ no. leave out that bottle
/ put off the ciga
/ Western must be holy
/ for that blessing is our cry
/ to the church we hurry
/
/
/ Halelu...halelu...ya
/ praise the Lord today you are worth
/ there are behind
/ we did not know it's Sunday… sign in to read more »

Numbers could translate tragedy or joy, 06-05-06 could represent a new soul or one that left us, writing this got one reminiscing about how precious life is; one commodity that you don't acquire by being black nor white but you acquire it because the man above saw fit to grant you one, it's a puzzle… sign in to read more »

may god forgive my impertinence
/ as it is no fault of mine
/ only this freedom that he's given me
/ it made me do this
/ that I tell it as it's been:
/
/ intact were our abilities as we were led
/ on empty stomachs and unkempt visages
/ purging our souls of what sanity is left
/ and looking on the brethren… sign in to read more »

It does not need to be disturbed...
/ It does not need to be shouted...
/ It does not need to be interrogated...
/
/ It does not need to be accused of anything that it had never done
/ It does not need to be mistaken for anything that is not perfect...
/
/ The call of nature respect and it needs to be… sign in to read more »

Johannesburg sings the beauty of our lonliness
/ The night's heartbeat as fake as the hanshakes exchanged
/ Ribbons of headlights coarse through the veins of the city
/ Where we die in search of a better life we left behind
/ The night whispers its screams from deep within us
/
/ We stand on the edge of… sign in to read more »

It does not allow me to brag about me being alive...
/ It does not allow me to brag about me not being in prison..
/ It does not allow me to brag about me not being an alcoholic..
/ My degree of knowledge made me understand the reality of living.
/ My degree of knowledge made me feel like a child… sign in to read more »

Well they say you're One Lucky Guy
/ I couldn't write like you if I tried
/ Keep on, keeping on and never let
/ That fire die...I just shake my head
/ And sigh...'cuz they have no idea
/ How little I hoped to accomplish
/ Thus far, I thought in my early
/ Teens by now I'd be a big time
/ Rock-n-roll star… sign in to read more »

Contradiction the answer to the frequently omitted question,
/ he nibbles, smiles and giggles in the shadow,
/ a dark cloud represents his daily routine,
/ trapped in an illusion of a junkie,
/ frowns the norm as dreams fell apart like the roof of the shacks he grew up in,
/ black curtain fixed upon… sign in to read more »

When I was but a young girl I just loved opposites, then I didn't know they attract.
/ Defying the odds and always being the odd one out, now I only find out it's what they call gender.
/ Female, feminine, phenomenal are words I started understanding when I became a young woman.
/ Pubic, puberty is not… sign in to read more »

It was the sadness in your eyes,
/ The way you never smiled at me,
/ But you kept on looking,
/ And when you thought I wasn't worth it,
/ You kept on coming,
/ For there was something in me that kept you intrigued.
/
/ Or was it the sadness in my eyes?
/ The way I used to put on my fake smile,
/ The way I… sign in to read more »

we unveilled the tombstone of death
/ he was a cruel man
/ reads the epitaph on his tombstone
/ our private jets parked in the vicinity
/ following the assasination of poverty
/ who haunted the ajority of masses
/ we are all smiles today
/ after successful coup on wars,arrests and terrorism
/ peace… sign in to read more »

Find in me
/ that part of you
/ we both seek most of all
/
/ reality
/ has seen us through
/ but can not break the fall
/
/ here betwixt what is and will be
/ I find no comfort here
/ I am battered, bruised and certainly
/ most humanly filled with fear
/
/ as I drift through
/ an endless sea
/ in… sign in to read more »

Thousands of eyes
/ Glued to a sreen,
/ Breaths held and
/ Prayers said.
/
/ Towards the ball
/ He moves.
/ An extensive breath
/ He takes.
/ A short supplication
/ He says.
/
/ The whistle blows,
/ He moves without
/ Hesitating.
/ He kicks.
/ Is it in?
/
/ We don't know
/ The screen just
/ Turned off.… sign in to read more »

Freedom was here
/ We are told
/ She stood right there
/ A sight to behold
/ Strong and mighty
/ Like the Drakensberg
/
/ Did we slumber
/ Through the thunder
/ That heralded her coming?
/ Did we blink
/ And missed her mischievous wink?
/
/ Marikana tears of blood
/ Mourn the death of the noble tree
/ Killed for… sign in to read more »

Reality sank in when the words that meant more no longer carried the same weight, the sun rose later than usual, late night phone calls and daily texts a history to the bleeding heart, she no longer drench from the idea of love making but to the reality that your absence and presence represents,… sign in to read more »

Too much they say
/ Them tall lads and Ladi
/ All them white collars
/ And fancy bred lads
/ With iron black suit
/ All tall and fine cept
/ Ladi, who is pretty.
/
/ Too much they say
/ Them tall lads and Ladi
/ Talking about sky and man.
/ Man standing on the moon
/ With wings of iron soaring
/ Through fall… sign in to read more »

In the dead of night
/ The wind whispers to the rain
/ Freedom is dead
/ His throat slit from ear to ear
/ Justice lay in his arms
/ Fast asleep
/ Two damned souls
/ No Saviour's blood could save
/
/ In the dead of night
/ The rain whispers to the wind
/ Somebody killed a sparrow
/ With a bow and arrow
/ The… sign in to read more »

What is love - pray do tell,
/ I seek it dearly, but what do I know?
/ The vision's set, the road's mapped out,
/ But where do I start, where do I go?
/ Why do I dare? Why do I care?
/ Do I care? Oh, surely I must...
/ Why do I stand? Why here did I land?
/ Where is the reason, what answer do I trust?
/ I'm… sign in to read more »

When life is dull and kind
/ Accept the time to find
/ The inner you of who you are
/ Within your heart and dare
/ To search with great desire
/ That which life has to offer
/
/ Dullness is a given gift
/ Not to be wasted on sorry fits
/ For all that life has done
/ Is to space a mark for one
/ Where time… sign in to read more »

The years have past like sand in the wind,
/ Fluttering alone through the dessert of time.
/ As the rush of life slows ever down,
/ And recedes to rust and grime.
/
/ The chances that came, like fateful gifts,
/ Lie littered among the broken dreams,
/ Wishes and desires that glittered like gold,
/ Lay… sign in to read more »

See, this is not for you.
/
/ I'd give you the praise and glory but I'd be a bigger liar than you.
/
/ I'd bow at your feet but I'd only be wasting lastnights dinner.
/
/ We've had our fair share of lies, greed and deceit, thats all we had going.
/
/ Enjoyed it while it lasted?
/
/ Here's to the past… sign in to read more »

He wants me to juggle my trade with his wordsmith
/ I want him to juggle his wit with my songs
/ with our everything in common we make an equilibrium tug of war between us
/ his ammunition is complete with a scribe and scroll
/ making sketches of meaningful calligraphy is his hobby
/ his mission is to… sign in to read more »

"Happiness", an understatement
/ Just no words to precisely express my sentiment
/ Words at large simply fail me
/
/ Forward the "tic tacks" of time
/ Hearing your name at play to my ears awakens the senses I never knew I had
/ You are my music
/ Rhythms play
/ Spasms my heart gets
/ Beats it skips
/ Trips… sign in to read more »

The waves of that night
/ Were wilder than could be
/ There was no safe or sound place in sight
/ And the vessels bobbed like corks upon the sea.
/
/ The churning of the mailstrom with mouth open wide
/ Pulled me violently nearer with each twist
/ Deeper still sank i, struggling against the tide,… sign in to read more »

The tide is marching in great velocity
/ Like a plane sweeping through the air-
/ Who can stop it? The wind is sweeping
/ The wind of change, about birthrights
/ About human rights, civic education,
/ Even greater change is in the scope of gender equality?
/ Who can stop the wind from blowing?
/ Who can… sign in to read more »

My words are like an untrampled dew...meaningful without being tampered with, my tears are like a winter's rain...so rare but a necessity, my heart is an orphan with much to give yet no support structure, my whispers make more noise than the actions I portray, my touches are invisible to the eye...… sign in to read more »

There's a popular time worn belief
/ That older people have a hunger
/ To date or have a relationship with
/ A person that's much younger.
/
/ At the risk of sounding sarcastic,
/ There may be a concern to mount.
/ That, "Age is just a number" relates
/ To what is in one's bank account.
/
/ Now, dear… sign in to read more »

I hear you, but listen to yourself
/ You might just hear the wailing of my heart
/ Maybe you might just hear the splattering of my teardrops of joy
/ From my excited heart
/ Listen to what you are saying
/ You might just hear careless whispers
/ By angels who might have fallen for your charm
/ Listen to… sign in to read more »

It came in a business envelope
/ That bore my lawyer's name.
/ It arrived without any fanfare.
/ And without any acclaim.
/ Inside it was the end result
/ Of a sad and expensive game.
/ It contained the official decree
/ That snuffed out a former flame.
/ It said nothing of the heartbreak,
/ Brought by… sign in to read more »

Do you see that red, square box?
/ that innocuous piece of wood?
/ it's been my home and my prison
/ I wouldn't stay there if I could
/
/ I've been squatting in that thing
/ under a painfully heavy lid
/ If you opened it and slammed it shut
/ It might be the meanest thing you did
/
/ Every time the lid is… sign in to read more »

There is nothing more decadent
/ Than how we portray innocent
/ Fifties ideals, white picket offence
/ White skinned white washed fence
/ Marriage with father writ large
/ The family under his charge
/
/ He's the doctor, she plays nurse
/ Replicating misogyny's curse
/ Sheeplike youth prepare to be led… sign in to read more »

It was in ninth grade English class
/ And my teacher was Miss Joan Frank
/ It was because of her love of poetry,
/ That I now have her to blame or thank.
/
/ Poems came alive in her classroom
/ As we absorbed Lewis Caroll's whimsy
/ And many years later I still wonder what
/ And why, Borogoves are mimsey… sign in to read more »

He holds his bat with all his might,
/ The bowlers bowl with full of fright.
/ He is the man, he is the king,
/ He smashes every ball out of the ring.
/
/ Once he entered the pitch by chance,
/ And changed the game in a single glance.
/ He is the man depended on hard times,
/ For he is the king of all the… sign in to read more »

When loneliness pierces your heart like a thorn,
/ When memories seem to replay all your past,
/ When some contradictory feeling is born
/ To remnants of love that was not meant to last,
/ Your temple of hope is about to fall,
/ The shade of your sun is about to fade,
/ The wheel of your life is reluctant… sign in to read more »

I've changed black pearls of cherished then
/ To sparkling diamonds of today,
/ It's all arranged, I've got a plan,
/ At such small price as love to pay.
/
/ I'll sell my dreams as plain free verse
/ To any weekly magazine,
/ With no fear or remorse
/ I'll break the bounds of routine.
/
/ If my heartbeat is… sign in to read more »

I'd send you a dream in another e-mail
/ And open my heart to attach,
/ But it would be hard to explore and unveil,
/ Since digits and feelings don't match.
/
/ The digits of love are a changeable thing
/ Without a permanent code,
/ However, the vivid emotions they bring
/ Still fill the handwritten plain… sign in to read more »

Fresh from the incubator... we come out a box,
/ Newly born and eager to burn.
/ The doctor's smack lights the wick,
/ A weak flicker is the start.
/
/ In his teens the wind bends the flame to go with the flow,
/ But flickering moments of dark then light
/ Teach it straight to grow
/ And that the way of… sign in to read more »

I tell you, there will forever be
/ No pain, no gain for free
/ Trapped in endless circulation
/ Seek the same pixel, in better resolution
/ Different story, yet the lesson unlearned
/ All the enlightment, yet the truth undiscerned
/ To set a course, and to consign that way
/ To oblivion, all in the arch,… sign in to read more »

Pitter-patter; tears on the roof,
/ The world sleeps knowing not the grief,
/ And in dawning hours the gage is proof
/ Of a tear shed for life... oh so brief!
/
/ The face of the sky is darkly troubled,
/ Unnoticed by the sleeping world below
/ Unconcerned nor woken by the tear drops doubled
/ Weeping o'er… sign in to read more »

The pleasure to speak is my lost privilege,
/ And now insanity dwells on a page,
/ However, it's changing the color in days,
/ Revealing the truth my white pencil portrays.
/
/ But I'm getting sick of the poetess' fate,
/ I only enliven the worlds your create,
/ Denying the myths you don't want to believe… sign in to read more »

I used to compare myself with a fire,
/ So sudden, so restless, so hard to predict -
/ A definite danger from miles to admire,
/ The gamut of colors one couldn't depict.
/
/ The flame is extinguished. The reason is clear -
/ I crave for love fuel and only one match.
/ I'm stronger than every invisible… sign in to read more »

Insane! Girl you are plain insane!
/ That's what they would all tell me if they knew
/ that I was still in love with you
/ after everything you have put me through.
/
/ Insane to even allow myself to come second
/ when I could come first with someone else.
/ Insane for being insane enough to
/ fall for… sign in to read more »

My best friend
/ Doesn't talk when I need silence
/ He won't bother me at all
/ My best friend
/ Isn't weak when I need a strong hand
/ He helps me through a hard day
/
/ My best friend
/ Brings me joy when I need it most
/ He always does the right things at the right time
/ My best friend
/ Isn't forcing… sign in to read more »

They are everywhere these things
/ I visualise them as extraordinary species
/ Moving in circles at an incredibly high speed
/ Mysterious shadows maybe the devil's angels
/ Like humans with animal features
/ Cat claws and vampire teeth...
/
/ These things...only visible to my eye
/ Whose eery sound only… sign in to read more »

The times of the rhyming sensations are ceased,
/ It's no surprise evil love has deceased -
/ My heart is a chamber with limited space,
/ Indifference got all my feelings erased.
/
/ Frail fibre is used to the memories' blade,
/ My thirst for your love is about to fade,
/ Deceiving myself is revealing the… sign in to read more »

I'd sell my heart in paperback,
/ In verses for perverts to read.
/ The crimson lines look good on black,
/ Just like the world behind my lids.
/
/ For crimson is my poisoned blood
/ You'd never want to mix with yours,
/ For black is my denying heart
/ That's stained with lies and dead remorse.
/
/ Erase my… sign in to read more »

A Protestor burns tyres
/ For services he desires
/ But ain't it strange?
/ He talks about the new nobility
/ But won't vote for accountability
/ Won't risk real change
/
/ Because voting booths ain't so fun
/ And in a war costs are only counted
/ When the battle's won
/
/ The mayor he sits secure
/ He can… sign in to read more »

Don't embrace what's beautiful,
/ don't come over when the glass is full,
/ don't hate love when is empty,
/ is so easy mistaking...
/
/ Reality is embraced over,
/ look around
/ force over the latitude,
/ I change duality,
/ come over when you know I know.
/
/ Step down to feeling,
/ water's over my entrails… sign in to read more »

Soft and tender
/ Leave you dry
/ I am a gold digger,
/ quit school I'm still an 8th grader
/ Looking for a deep pocket so that I can reach deeper
/ Neck pains, am used to them
/ Back pains, had them from since I was twelve years old
/ Got introduced to a world of pure lust
/ Got in and was reeled in fast… sign in to read more »

To my eyes it was a sight of pure bliss,
/ Incarnations of Queen Afrika herself.
/ A sight made to shutter shut jaws and make their tongues stutter endless silence,
/ Who could blame King Heart if he himself muttered words of slaves at her unintentional demand.
/ The latter was high and its matter wrote… sign in to read more »

When you have something to say and you don't,
/ When you think of something worth doing and you don't,
/ When you have a vision but don't let others see it,
/ And when you withhold any good from those who deserve it,
/ You are shouting a silent lie.
/
/
/ When you see a gap and you don't fill it,
/ When… sign in to read more »

Describe me the pleasures of ignorant bliss,
/ When life's like a train you are bound to miss,
/ When casual trifles appear in pink,
/ And wonders untouchable instantly shrink.
/
/ You don't want to alter reality frail,
/ So every bold thought finds itself in a jail.
/ You welcome no changes, you… sign in to read more »

If you had a single wish, how would you choose to spend it?
/ Would you use your wish to destroy the world, rule it, heal it or mend it?
/ Do you wish for eternal wealth, then you could finally be free?
/ Or do you wish for the power of flight to travel across the sea?
/
/ Would you use your wish to… sign in to read more »

Everyday challenges becomes vividly more,
/ I can't remember, was it in the top or in the bottom drawer?
/ I had a meeting today but I completely forgot,
/ Sadly I'm told, this happens lately quite a lot.
/
/ I don't understand, I remember my childhood memories well,
/ But it is these everyday happenings… sign in to read more »

the future has been raped
/ she lay half dead in the dark alley of progress
/ her frail body motionless
/ waiting for the dignity of death to devour her flesh
/ the wind to scatter her bones
/ her beauty once like sun kissed lilies
/ now a withering rose kissed by the cold lips of winter
/ I feed her lamp… sign in to read more »

I honestly, truly, have absolutely no idea of how the hell you ended up stuck in that chamber of mine - I don't even know if it's an atrium or a ventricle - but there you are...together with the addiction, the pain, the sometimes joy, the shadow of always promised and never gotten happiness, the… sign in to read more »

Somehow I know this one won't last
/ But still I find myself succumbing to this lust
/ As if his presence in my life is an absolute must
/ Knowing well that he is the forbidden fruit
/ Yet everytime I try to end it I become a lovestruck mute
/ I know it will be over soon but even then won't face the… sign in to read more »

Like poetry,
/ Like musical ability,
/ Like painting,
/ Like sport,
/ Lying is a talent too.
/
/ Some have the inherent ability,
/ To create a fictitious life,
/ That is grander than necessary,
/ Larger than life.
/ Never mundane, never ordinary,
/ Always fascinatingly different,
/ And appealingly new.… sign in to read more »

The paradigm that 'leopards don't change their spots'
/ always rang true
/ until this leopard
/ grew tired of her spots
/ wanted something different
/ longed for something new
/
/ until this leopard
/ threw off that oppressive spot
/ that before would never change
/ refused to change
/
/ until this leopard… sign in to read more »

Forgive this my people
/ It's the kick of a toddler
/ Full of sound and fury
/ But to little effect
/
/ Wonder I how Africans are are Africans in Africa
/ Land of plenty of wealth
/ How can we be a people of extremes
/ Dark, poor, dull, rich in resouces
/ As they would say...poor at home and dull at school… sign in to read more »

what's this I hear?
/
/ Is that what you say of me...
/ fair enough
/ it's your opinion
/ judgments are the matter to the owner
/ all is welcome
/
/ it's not a guarantee
/
/ I enter your prism and make your special entrance
/ you capture the scent, my radiance, my fever, my glance
/
/ I'm proud to be… sign in to read more »

You detest me. The reason is clear,
/ And your welcome is always so cold,
/ But the core of my perfect idea
/ Has been stolen by the whole
/ Heartless cruel rotten world.
/
/ You all promptly discovered the sense of surviving
/ And at last started thinking what means to be free.
/ Full of envy, consumed… sign in to read more »

You are not the ones for love to know,
/ You are not the ones for life to please,
/ All you hunt is dirty euro dough,
/ It's, in fact, a terrible disease.
/
/ Your infected ego is inflated,
/ It will burst and poison all your veins.
/ Even when the beast is saturated,
/ It is still your helplessness that… sign in to read more »

Modern technology's a wonder
/ Just amazing this I know
/ If I get lost there's my GPS
/ That will tell me where to go.
/
/ If I am bored at home alone
/ And want to have some fun,
/ I can play against Nintendo Wii
/ Although I have never won.
/
/ For my mathematical prowess
/ I realize there's no flattery… sign in to read more »

For the intangible concept of Freedom
/ There has been many a loss of life.
/ In the name of her script for "Freedom",
/ I was forced to lose my wife.
/
/ It was her sad solution,
/ For her personal evolution,
/ Freedom was her revolution
/ From loving marital institution.
/
/ In conflicts concerning… sign in to read more »

A razor-sharp sliver of ray slits the dark and leaden sky,
/ Unzips it slowly and deliberately to reveal a hue of orange and red,
/ A fish eagle calls soulfully, mournfully, echoing in his head,
/ The screen enlarges, brightens, figures are born, change and die.
/ The dark sky swallows itself, spews out… sign in to read more »

Let us explore the hypotheses
/ Put forward by some fractured
/ dilletante fringe,
/ That all art is self-creating,
/ Although there is a common belief
/ Held by layman and artist alike
/ That it is man who creates art.
/
/ Let us ponder
/ Whether that Italian lady
/ Whose smile disturbed the new awareness… sign in to read more »

New eyes flicker open
/ Good Morning
/ Yesterday's eyes forgotten
/ Prayers said just mechanically
/ He steps out of himself like a shadowy soul
/ Duplicity
/ His eyes dart about wickedly
/ Slits narrow menacingly knowingly cold
/ Today he shall not be meek but bold
/ The halo spins and twirls to remind him… sign in to read more »

I'm tired in my restlessness
/ As I endeavour to understand
/ Why I'm around here.
/
/ I find myself so rich
/ In my poverty and hunger,
/ So homeless in my home;
/ So happy in my misery.
/
/ I… sign in to read more »

Right now I feel so lost
/ Not sure which way to turn
/ Unhappy where I am -
/ Which bridges do I burn?
/
/ Everything that held me
/ Has strangely lost its grip
/ I'm totally alone -
/ And tears refuse to drip.
/
/ I need to haul my mind
/ From where it wants to go
/ Thoughts it has been thinking
/ Just make… sign in to read more »

I actually thought you loved me
/ You told me that every day
/ How was I so blind as not to see
/ That you could do me wrong in such a way
/
/ I gave you my love, my heart, and soul
/ But yet you just tossed them aside
/ I flew over oceans on wings I feared most
/ Just to find the deadly secrets that you… sign in to read more »

Your heart is filled with treason
/ Turning your back on me
/ You do not have a clear reason
/ For why our love can't be
/
/ Your laughs have turned to hate
/ Your smile is now a frown
/ Anger from you is what I take
/ No more up just the down
/
/ People say that true love is real
/ I actually thought that's… sign in to read more »

Frost now covers my once loving heart
/ Ice replaces my flowing warm core
/ Hatred is tearing my caring apart
/ Nothing is the same as it once was before
/
/ All my good intentions have grown sour
/ My happiness has taken a turn for the worst
/ My evilness is growing stronger by the hour
/ My joy is now… sign in to read more »

hail Mary full of grace
/ a virgin made to save face
/ gave her only son to save the world
/ save for today's illegitimate sons
/ sacrificed on the alter of shame to save face
/ for god so loved the world
/ is nothing but empty words
/ hail Mary full of grace
/ what a disgrace
/
/ hail Mary full of grace… sign in to read more »

He lived his days by someone's rules,
/ He broke his hands, became the tool.
/ He played the game with life at stake.
/ He won. He made a great mistake.
/
/ Life is action,
/ Don't surrender
/ When the heartlessness decides
/ Who are fighters and defenders
/ On the different inner side.
/
/ Some beer in… sign in to read more »

Chalk dust clog my nose
/ As I work for all those
/ Who in a few years
/ Are bound to forget.
/
/ Bad handwriting twist my eyes
/ As I figure out what the guys
/ Are trying to mean
/ With their crawly script.
/
/ All this for nothing but peanuts,
/ You're supposed to be humble, no guts.
/ To be initiative… sign in to read more »

If it was you sleeping on the park bench making it your home.
/ Would you have the audacity to moan?
/ Complain about everything, under the sun because you live below the poverty line,
/ You might as well run...
/
/ Away from politics, conflict & distrust. Do these things exist to you?
/ Is having a bath… sign in to read more »

She wore silver-golden rings,
/ She drove the newest Ferrari,
/ She was so incredibly scary
/ That stuff from the labeled glam bliss
/ Would still never help.
/ Yet he paid for this.
/
/ They said they were so in love!
/ He loved her blow jobs with eyes closed
/ As much as to hear her boast
/ Her fucking… sign in to read more »

Fire is a good servant but a bad master
/ Once you thought you have mastered all,
/ Soon you'll realize that it was just a starter.
/ Because even the hasty climbers have sudden falls.
/ Only you've to believe in yourself.
/ The world is too much of our disgrace.
/ He can be charming but a bad future… sign in to read more »

my eyes
/ my vision
/ my window to the world
/ my beauty
/
/ they define me
/ although some cannot see it
/ they define the true me
/
/ I can do a lot of things with them
/ I can love
/ I can hate
/ I can talk, cry, lie
/ but most of all
/ I can seduce
/
/ I haven't altered their vision
/ cause I appreciate them… sign in to read more »

I repent from growing
/ and have remorse for being,
/ what do you think?
/ I'm a recipient for hate.
/
/ I have a reckless remorse for you
/ and repent from succumbing,
/ What do I think?
/ I'm a torch for torture.
/
/ I repent from revealing my life
/ and have a remorse for loving,
/ What do you think?
/ I'm… sign in to read more »

Things are getting rowdy
/ And stuff is thrown about.
/ Cracks appear down the lane
/ And our home has broken down.
/
/ Lies are peddled for survival,
/ Thugs are compensated for forgery
/ Comradeship now knows no valour
/ Affairs in our home are down -
/ The glorification of falsehood.
/
/ Nhlanhla asked… sign in to read more »

I flatten down my hopes
/ a scarce escape for what would be,
/ plough into me... I'm a newcomer
/ I pray for foolishness.
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/ I pull you up and push you down
/ I've been somewhere in between,
/ sorting out the bruises
/ can't stand still... is so certain.
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/ By tomorrow I fall down again
/ recognizing that… sign in to read more »

Commercial love to fulfill,
/ they race against the comma
/ to bedim my beauty
/ and narrow the commotion.
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/ They comfort each other
/ with coltish combat and influence,
/ fake and burglar intentions
/ become those busy bastards.
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/ the Approval of this fetish passion
/ to complaint and pact about… sign in to read more »

Adulteration almost complete
/ understood the posible agony,
/ amass those blazing insults
/ intimate with a dream.
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/ Irresolvable issue to lend
/ bittersweet blindness to me,
/ bite abroad again the abdication
/ hurtle out the single act.
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/ Adventure myself in the blade
/ of rushing up above the rest,… sign in to read more »

Duality makes life seem unfair,
/ Nobody ever wants to share,
/ But everyone needs what they do not own,
/ From little child, to fully grown,
/ Yet everyone wants other people's sight,
/ Those in darkness, pray for light,
/ And those with sunshine in their eyes,
/ Their own selves, they do despise,
/ For… sign in to read more »

On our national seal
/ is a peculiar engraving
/ of a lion.
/ Bright, bold and gold,
/ it looks out with a snarl -
/ always.
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/ It used to be different
/ in the days of old .
/ It used to be different
/ in the days gone by.
/ It used to be a farmer
/ in a green field
/ harvesting tobacco leaves -
/ I wish.… sign in to read more »

What's going on,
/ A cheap glam slut?
/ You spread your lust
/ For miles around
/ Till some old drunkard
/ Rents your butt,
/ You wanted fun -
/ That's what you've found.
/ You were a smart
/ And pretty thing,
/ You were respected
/ And adored,
/ You dreamt of golden
/ Wedding rings,
/ On one D-day
/ It got you… sign in to read more »

I press the button and renew
/ The page with someone's masterpiece.
/ I see a so-called review
/ Of letters less than letters missed.
/ The comment's author claims to be
/ A bard, a critic and a muse.
/ This three-in-one, or none-in-three
/ Can't get the core of someone's views,
/ Of thoughts in their… sign in to read more »

We stand naked before the truth
/ yet we are blind to the naked truth
/ it seems we are all at sea
/ as it reveals naked parts we don't want to see
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/ we struggle to swim against the currents of our acquired ignorance
/ while leaders swagger clothed in brand new designer arrogance
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/ our police break… sign in to read more »

A glass of cheap vodka tastes just like depression -
/ It hurts to be sober tonight.
/ The mirror reflects such a hideous expression
/ That I promptly turn off the light.
/ Some porno, then casual sex with my hand...
/ Oh damn! This is something I shouldn't have said.
/ Why don't you believe that I need… sign in to read more »

She's sitting, sitting alone
/ With brandy and Winston in hands,
/ Devouring with her mischievous wild glance
/ Her already coupled-off friends.
/ "I'm fine" - her red eyes shout loud,
/ "We see. What the fuck?" - says the crowd.
/ She sets her lust racing around the hall,
/ But no one hears this hopeless… sign in to read more »

She's out in the rain, on the verge of despair.
/ The smoke is twirling in fresh autumn air,
/ Ten cigarettes stand for three-four minutes each.
/ She's waiting for him - he is out of reach.
/ At last he shows up: "Hey, I'm sorry I'm late",
/ She sighs with relief. What a wonderful date!
/ He looks like a… sign in to read more »

Let me die a youngman's death
/ not a clean and inbetween
/ the sheets holywater death
/ not a famous-last-words
/ peaceful out of breath death
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/ When I'm 99
/ and in constant good tumour
/ may I be mown down at dawn
/ by a bright red sports car
/ on my way home
/ from an all night party
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/ Or when I'm 100… sign in to read more »

She's wearing a plait and a plain floral dress,
/ Her skin is so pale, and her fringe is a mess.
/ She can't link three words in the simpliest phrase,
/ And ignorance left dirty marks on her face.
/ Her look is so frightened, her thoughts are a dump,
/ She's shallow, naive, indecisive and numb.
/ She won'… sign in to read more »

Dissolve all your pride in your misery, guys!
/ It's only your pathos that shines in your eyes.
/ Your words are important just devil knows where,
/ Your mirth in the voice is a sign of despair.
/ You've never seen life, as you've been colorblind;
/ It's painted by poets in all undertones
/ While you… sign in to read more »

The feeling of being lonely weakens the inner me What more can there be, if not the darkness in my eyes?
/ The feeling of the world on top of my shoulders, is only when I'm on top of the world
/ It's ike everyone has turned their backs on… sign in to read more »